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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    That Sarwan could probably write a book on technique is neither here nor there. There are plenty of people who can write books on how things should be done but who don't follow their own advice. It's a good thing you're not a coach, I'd say, because if you think that Sarwan's obvious technical...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    When Worcestershire win the Pura Cup. Cheers, Mike
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    There is an almost infallible rule that when someone counters a value judgment with "How can you possibly say that? Just look at these stats!", the value judgment is absolutely spot on. Banks did bowl well in the second innings, without reward, just as on another day Harmison will bowl a lot...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    It turns out that Collins hit Jones the Ball on the toe when he was batting, so he has been bowling and fielding with a swollen toe all match. This probably accounts for some of the low quality of his bowling in this game, and probably also means that the door will open for Anderson at...
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    He's called a sissy because he kept crying off injured and the doctors weren't finding anything (much) wrong with him, a reputation which has stuck to him like a leech. Then he went to the Academy, where they discovered that he had a medical condition which was not easy to spot because it was...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    It was. I'm glad I managed to get to the ground in time to see it. Cheers, Mike
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    I'd agree with your assessment that if WI bat all day, they will win, as well as with your assessment that it is unlikely they will survive that long - precisely because WI batsmen are not blockers. Cheers, Mike
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    We might differ on exactly which occasions, but neither of us believes that he has been a good Test bowler on more than a handful of them. If the original assertion that he had *never* done anything - after eight games now - were true, then it would probably be time to say "bye-bye and don't...
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    You're going to be able to show me where I said that, aren't you? Though don't try bringing up the post in which I replied to the assertion that he had *never* done well in any form of cricket by pointing out one instance which seemed to me to prove that the sweeping generalisation was...
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    I realise you're pulling my plonker, because no-one could be daft enough to mount the career averages after a tiny number of matches line at me and really expect to be taken seriously, but still.... I assume you're similarly prepared to explain the significance of his career average, given that...
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    He wasn't the worst-ever English selection when he was picked, but he would be now. (Well, possibly not worst-*ever*, but you get the drift.) Marc's "no mind, no heart" was what we discovered when we picked him - and these are things which cannot be discovered *unless* you pick someone. He...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    You and I might think that, but that's not how Duncan Fletcher thinks, going by reports. Key was picked as the replacement for Butcher partly because he had considerable county form this year but at least partly because he did better than Collingwood in the ODIs (for interesting values of...
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    Would you care to explain why his five-fer in the Caribbean was not an example of him doing well in Test cricket? His spell with the old ball on the Saturday of the NZ game earlier this year, when he displayed some excellent reverse swing, was enough to keep me interested in him, because we...
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    Simon Jones - International Failure?

    I don't see how you can make any judgement about anyone as a result of this game, because the pitch is so discouraging to good play. All we have learned about Key is that he is able to bat for several hours against unthreatening bowling on a dead pitch. Dwayne Bravo's performance tells us as...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    Pretty much spot on. By heck, this is an incredibly boring match. As a birthday, today was about as tedious as it gets. I blame Micky Hunt. We haven't had more than about one wicket an innings fall to good bowling rather than careless batting in a Lord's Test since 2001. I think Devon Smith's...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    He only has the right to feel aggrieved by that decision if he is equally grateful to Rudy Koertzen for reprieving him on a plumb lbw appeal a few minutes earlier. Cheers, Mike
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    In other words, an exact replay of Hussain at Brisbane. It's conditions like these in which one should always remember WG Grace's advice that you should bat nine times out of ten on winning the toss, and on the other time, you should think about putting the other side in and then bat first...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    In what series did Hussain decide to bat first at the Gabba? Presumably a different one to the one in which he made his decision to bowl first and to which I referred. Cheers, Mike
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    That was what Hussain said at Brisbane, too. The stories that Vaughan would have inserted as well tend to lower my estimation of Vaughan as an astute captain: I was at the ground when the toss was made, and when I saw Lara take first interview slot, I assumed they were batting. I couldn't...
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    **Official** West Indies in England Thread

    I suppose the interesting question to come out of today is whether or not Lara's decision to field first was worse than Hussain's similar decision at Brisbane in 2002-3. Cheers, Mike

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